Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-01-26

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% be nsns 10 shs 6sia ana nagfna. Il am
u11srig unconsefo1s - any -. uora -
desien whish ahould naks M lsas sIiRt-
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soldiers 81 he Rspublis han npan any
day of ny psss liis.1
Mesntfme, tie sabiset had been
hfo1ehf 40 il CongFssA sad IL answer
70 4 ssnafs sssoiufisa u isqairy Pres
Gent Lincoin trnnsmifisd . nsasaes Dc
slfnfn9 70 siafs ~ feason q Gsneral
sl0nsis arEssG. and addine. ~Hs uiIi Be-
siiswsd trial uifbost aussesssaFy ds
Isg." Ths trial. howsssE. did nst c01nss
and on JAY 17th Canessas passed . Iav
pr0gidina that ~whsneveE an 06ssar
snail BE- puf under arrest. exoept ~ r.
mots military posts, Il shall Be he duty
Of he ofissF b. whose orders be q
arrested 70 see thss . eopy Of tbe
charges shslI Be served upon hin with
IN eight days thsrsafisF. and that be
shall b bf0aeht 70 trial within ten
days shersaftes, unless the necessities Of
the service prevent saeh trial, and then
be shall Be bfsaght 70 tgsai wiEbin
thirty days after The expiration Of said
ten days, sF The arrest ahali esaas."
FOR thirty days altar TIE passage Of
this set General stones imprisonmsnt
conti1nsd and be vas thea released.
The order which released him did not
assign him 70 daty. he reported for
duty a the ofics Of TIE Adiutant Gen
sEal and vas told that there we're na Or
deFs for him. he then sndes9orsd 70
sseurs an explanation Of his arrsss. bot,
strangely enough. nobody sssmed 10
kn0w anything aboat IL. Gsassal No
OIsiIsn said that be had received the
order for bis arrest from tbs Secretary
Of War, Who had told him thai it vas 81
ths solicitation of the Ccmmiftee on the
Conduot Of the WaE. General Halleek,
the CommandsF-in-C Chief. informed him
thai be knew nothing of his arrest and
that thsre we're no charges against him.
President Lincoln stated that. while ths
arrest vas made under his general an
thority, be did not do IL, and be knew
nothing Of It. AZ the War Department
be- was informed that the arrest VA
mads on the Recommendation Of Gen
eral Mcclellan.
/ After vainly endeavoFing for ssveEa
years 10 secure an assignment 10 duty
GeasFsl Stone resigned bis commission
and went abroad. He became Chief O
she General stan Of the Khedive o
Eaypt and served With great distinction
in that capacity uHsil the bombardmen
Of AIsxandria By the British in 1881
when be returned to America, where b
has sinoe resided. His last work vas q
engineer experimenting the erection o
the pedestal for the BaEtholdi Statue.
AZ has been said, the case Of Genera
Stone vas q most mysterious one. NJ
tntimAtlon OF Why ne vas disRfaeed pa
ever been made pablie and the record
Of the War Department. afford no en-
PLANTATION. A suspicion Of disloyalt.
seems absurd when directed against on
who vas born and educated in Massa
chusetts, vas a pronounced Abolisionis
and had nothing in common With th
South or the Southern Gauss. The i'm
preston has always been that Ston
was sacrificed BY Mcclellan 10 shiel,
himself from the consequences Of hi
mismanaRemsnt prior to the defeat q
Ball's BluhI that, In fact, be was mad
acapeRoat for his superior officer
This seems 10 be the only reasonable
explanation Of the treatment 10 whiel
ha Vas suhieotad.